Khamenei calls for decisive crackdown on protests over fuel price rise

iran protestIran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei backed gasoline price increases today, calling the protesters “hooligans.” He openly ordered for a decisive crackdown on the protesters and instructed the security forces to act in line of their “duties.”
Khamenei also blamed opponents of the Iranian regime and foreign enemies for “sabotage,” state television reported.
He described those setting fire to public property during the protests as “bandits” backed by the enemies of Iran, without elaborating.

Following a 50% increase in the price of rationed gasoline, major Iran protests erupted in more than 93 cities, with angry protesters torching banks, gas stations, and Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and Bassij bases.

Dozens of videos published on social media channels and from sources inside Iran showed large protests in the capital Tehran, northeastern city of Mashhad, various cities in the southwestern province of Khuzestan, and northwestern city of Tabriz. Iranians in the western province of Lorestan, Kermanshah and Sanandaj also took to the streets. In Kermanshah and Sanandaj, locals clashed with security forces.

Internet access in Iran was curbed after the protests at the order of a state security council, state-run ISNA news agency reported.

Meanwhile, an informed source told the state-run ILNA news agency that the internet had been shut down due to security reasons. “The recent unrest has led the Security Council to shut down the internet”. The source said it was not clear when the net would be reconnected.

The state security forces have shot and killed at least 27 protesters in different cities though the number could be higher. Dozens of protesters were wounded.

Several videos shared on social media appeared to show the state-security forces opening fire using live ammunition.

In the central city of Sirjan where one person was killed in overnight on Friday, local hospitals could not accommodate so many wounded, and several them were hospitalized in the city of Kerman’s Seyyed Ol-Shohada hospital.

In the western Kermanshah Province, the state security forces shot people with pellet guns.

Iran’s chief public prosecutor, Mohammad Jafar Montazeri, called the protestors “saboteurs” and warned they would face “severe punishment” if arrested. He has also alleged that foreign powers were behind the protests.
Meanwhile, the regime’s Minister of Interior threatened Iranian protesters last night on state-run TV and said that they “had been identified” and “would be dealt with”.

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